Defense attorney David Hall patiently reviewed her statements to police in 1987, 2012 and 2013 in a preliminary hearing last year. He aimed at the inconsistencies and suggested Ottawa County Sheriff's detectives pressured her into saying her husband, Ryan Wyngarden, had shot dead his sister, Gail, and her husband, Rick Brink, on Nov. 21, 1987.

Pam Wyngarden said in court she loves her husband of 24 years and believes he still loves her. She told the court that on the evening of Nov. 22, Ryan took her to the murder scene. He parked the car a short distance from the house. As they walked up the driveway, with Pam holding her 6-month-old son, Nathan, she said, she saw Rick Brink's body slumped over in his truck. Inside the house, she said, Ryan showed her Gail's body, pulling the pillow off her face.

"After I saw Gail all bloody and the pillow all bloody, I ran out of the house," she said, but did not scream or run to a neighbor's house for help.

Ryan didn't threaten her at the time, she said, other than warn that she'd end up like the Brinks if she told anyone what she'd seen. The Wyngardens married in 1988. Pam said she wanted a family and feared losing her job and children, tearfully adding, "no matter what, I love my kids more than anything."

For years, the Wyngardens stuck by a story that they were at a friend's home the night of the murders, doing laundry and watching their children. Pam Wyngarden began backing off of that story in fall 2012, according to court testimony, telling detectives Venus Repper and Dave Blakely she couldn't recall what she was doing that night.

Hall asked if she felt pressured by her court appearance; she said no. Ottawa County Assistant Prosecutor Lee Fisher asked her to describe pressure during police interviews; Wyngarden said it came from inside herself. At one point, Hall showed her two photos of the crime scene that Wyngarden said she had not seen. Later, Fisher noted she'd seen them over the weekend. Hall asked her why she hadn't said so.

"Seeing the picture was hard," she said.

Also called to the stand on Friday: James "Jimbo" Meacham, 50, a childhood friend of Ryan Wyngarden and later his boss at a Holland tree-cutting service. Though Meacham had to fire Wyngarden at one point, the two have remained friends, he told the court, and he often stopped by for coffee between 5:30 and 7:30 a.m., before work. Ryan told him of the Brinks' deaths during such a visit he said, telling the court it was a Tuesday morning. The Brinks' bodies were discovered by Rick's parents on Nov. 23, a Monday.

Pam Wyngarden and Ryan's former girlfriend, Crystal Nykamp Beelen, each testified that he'd confessed to a sexual relationship with Gail when they were teens. Beelen, who said she dated and lived with Ryan "off and on" for several years before he married Pam in 1988, told the court he'd tearfully talked about approaching Gail as she sat on a bench behind the family's garage and when she refused him, "he pretty much forced her to do it," Beelen said, referring to sexual contact.

The confession, she said, happened days after the Brinks murders. Wyngarden also told her he had been caught by Rick Brink looking lustfully at Gail during a summer boat ride, Beelen said. She told her husband and a sister about the incident.

Beelen said she ended her romance with Wyngarden as he was beginning to date Pam. She went on to marry another man, and the couples maintained a casual friendship. Beelen used to babysit the Wyngardens' children, she said.

Beelen was still on the stand Friday afternoon when Judge Jon Hulsing called for a weekend recess.

The trial is expected to last for at least the next two weeks, with Beelen's testimony resuming at 9 a.m. Tuesday.